Go to our Reference Shelves and browse around the QL call number range.  Below are some other reference sources you may find helpful:

Sources for nomenclature

A dictionary of ethology

A dictionary of biology [electronic resource]

Henderson's dictionary of biological terms  

International dictionary of medicine and biology

The Facts on File dictionary of biology

Encyclopedias

Encyclopedia of animal behavior

Oxford companion to animal behavior

Grzimek's encyclopedia of ethology 

To assist you as you write:

Scientific style and format : the CBE manual for authors, editors, and publishers

To get started, try a keyword search in OASys. Be sure to notice the subject headings for the best items on your topic. Click on those headings to get more resources. Need more? Click over to LINK+ and continue your searching there. Need even more? WorldCat includes over 54 million entries from more than 45,000 libraries. You may also place Interlibrary Loan requests. (Slower than LINK+)

HINT: Remember to be flexible with your terminology and try several different searches.

Suggested Subject Headings:

Animal behavior

Insect societies

Parental behavior in animals
Play behavior in animals
Sexual behavior in animals
Social behavior in animals
 

For more assistance with searching for books, please see Finding Books.

Articles in Magazines, Newspapers and Journals

Articles provide a variety of information ranging from entertainment to scholarly research. To search for articles you use indexes or databases that may include more than one type of article.  Learn how to recognize and distinguish between the different types of publications (academic, popular, etc.) and select the articles that fit your need the best.

Selected Library Research Databases for Biology: 

CSA Biological & Medical Sciences Collection  
Includes the CSA Biological Sciences database, Biology Digest, BioOne, Plant Sciences, MEDLINE, TOXLINE, and more. The main Biological Sciences database offers subfiles including Animal Behavior Abstracts, Ecology Abstracts, Genetic Abstracts, and CSA Neurosciences Abstracts, to name a few.

Science Citation Index Expanded  
Along with the Social Science Citation Index, this Web of Science database allows you to find articles published since 1995 which cite articles or authors of interest to you. It fully indexes 5,900 major journals across 150 scientific disciplines. This resource replaces ISI Basic Science Index which indexed around 800 journals.

General Science Full Text (WilsonWeb) 
Find citations, abstracts, and substantial full-text for science and technology articles appearing in journals and magazines from the U.S. and U.K.

EBSCOhost.  Academic Search Elite

Academic Search Elite provides full text for more than 2,050 publications, including more than 1,500 peer-reviewed journals. In addition to the full text, indexing and abstracts are provided for all 3,468 journals in the collection. This database offers information in nearly every area of academic study.

ProQuest Online Information Service
A common interface to databases marketed by ProQuest Information and Learning Company. Oxy's set of ProQuest databases includes ProQuest General Reference, ProQuest Religious Periodicals, National Newspapers, and ProQuest Historical Newspapers. Except for Historical Newspapers, these databases can be searched simultaneously. Together they form a convenient general article database offering ample links to complete online articles.

For more assistance with searching our databases, please see Finding Articles.

Tired of Googling? try a different search engine or a subject directory found on our Public Internet Search Tools page.

Some results include:

• Animal Behavior Society: The Animal Behavior Society is a non-profit scientific society, founded to encourage and promote the study of animal behavior. ABS members are from all over the world, but primarily from North, Central, and South America.
• Applied Ethology: This Web site is dedicated to the field of applied animal behavior, which deals with the behavior of domestic animals or other animals kept in captivity. The intention with this site is to bring together a diverse set of resources students and scientists may find useful and which may also be of interest to anyone wanting to learn a bit ore about animal behavior.
   

  
  
  

For more assistance with searching for web sites, please see Finding Public Web Pages.

We welcome your Comments and Suggestions.

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